I wonder if there is a way to use Flash's OpenGL accelerations or convince Adobe to use Xvideo or something that is more easily passed down to a thin client (since with the Sun Ray 2, if I launch a YouTube stream in mplayer, it runs better since mplayer is using Xvideo to transmit to the Sun Ray).
I would love to see support for hardware decoding for Solaris sessions though, preferably using one of the "standard" existing protocols that I mentioned in a thread not too long ago. That way at least ordinary videos can play well, and maybe even Flash when played through mplayer if it uses a codec that can be decoded on the Ray. William Yang > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:15 AM > To: William Yang > Cc: 'SunRay-Users mailing list' > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Sun Ray 3 Plus in Google cache archives > > On 03/25/10 20:12, William Yang wrote: > > Videos, especially Flash. Because of YouTube, users want this more than > > they used to. > > We're well aware of this. The problem is that it's really difficult to > pass Flash content uncompressed down to a thin client, since it's a > proprietary format. The approach that pretty much all the thin client > vendors have to use is to decompress and then recompress the content to > send it down to the thin client, typically using JPEG. It also tends to > be a bit of a CPU hog. I for one hope that Apple's refusal to support > Flash on the iPhone (and presumably the iPad as well) will help other, > open protocols catch up. > > > I have heard reports that a demo of HP thin clients (which are probably > not > > as thin) worked well on the video front. > > With the one I've seen, they're way fat. The required client has to be > about as powerful as a full-fledged PC, and it's a 1-1 mapping of client > to server machine. So, it's a VERY expensive solution. And forget > running it over a high latency, low bandwidth WAN... > > Kent _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
